since its boring as all hell in here ...

what was your first job and how did you like it?

Stock boy in a dept. store. We used to go back in the carpet part of the warehouse and get high. :flipoff2: At least that part was ok.

mine was grease monkey (quick lube). i learned a lot about cars there. stuff that i would not have known now. the crew i worked with was cool. the upper managemtn sucked. got a lot of free oil. hence the name. left because things were getting schizty. i wont take my car to one, ill leave it at that.

Pizza delivery at night. Usually boring, but it was in a collage town so it did have its good moments. :D
Dinner was free, and tips were fairly good.

First job getting paid? Or does working on the farm or picking fish count? ;) Or are we talking first "adult job". I've been working since I was 12.. and before that in famiy business' (fishin' and farmin')

Sacker at the local grocery store. Started when I was 16 so I could have some money to go on dates with. Worked there for 3 years. Lot's of free candy and sodas. And it was freaking easy. Heavy stuff on the bottom, light on the top.

Reed

worked at a gun range. did all sorts of misc. odd jobs (small business) that needed to be done to keep the place going. started when i was 15, managed it part time when i was 17, came and went a few times - left the final time when i was 19.

jiffy lube

Pushing broom in a local greasy spoon when I was 9 and then I moved to a store stocking shelves when I turned 12.

Aside from mowing lawns and a paper route my 1st actual reported income was working for Dunkin Donuts. Started out as helper in the back, washing dishes, etc. Moved on to "finishing" the donuts and then started training as a baker. Problem was I was a sophomore/junior in high school and they were wanting more and more of my time so I quit and got something with more reasonable hours.

In hindsight I should have taken the promotion as baker and kept going....that was 23 years ago..I' would be a donut tycoon by now!!! :(

HAHAHAH you made the donuts? I made the bagels ;) 5am till 7 monday through saturday jr year and some of sr

First non-professional job (while in high school) was a machinist working with lathes, milling machines, etc.

First professional job (post college), was as a Construction Engineer at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant near San Luis Obispo, CA during plant construction.....

Originally posted by GonPostal

First professional job (post college), was as a Construction Engineer at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant near San Luis Obispo, CA during plant construction.....


hmmm a name like gonpostal and workign on anucleur power plant ... anyone else worried?

first job was when i was 14...residential construction clean-up that paid $50 per hour.

a buddy's dad worked for the building contractor and they were paying this cleaning crew $500 per house to go thru, clean EVERYTHING really well, and have it ready for an open house over the weekend. they also did remodel work on big $$ homes and we did the clean-up on them. the cleaning crew they had hired sucked. my buddy's dad offered us to do it and we got the job.

we were fast little fawkers and could go thru an average house in 4-5 hours. that included vacuuming the floors, dusting all the trim, cleaning windows, vacuuming duct work, bathrooms, sinks, minor lawn clean-up, and...the kicker...cleaning all the trash out of the crawl-space.

the first house we worked in had 24" of water in the crawl because the sump pump breaker wasn't flipped on. we were swimming in piss smelling water collecting trash...it sucked. but, for $50 and being 14yo at the time, it wasn't bad $$.

I worked at batting cages. After a few months I could actually hit a 90mph fastball consistently. Anyone in SoCal remember the Tustin Batting Cages?

Chevron gas station attendant...

Originally posted by Moby
I worked at batting cages. After a few months I could actually hit a 90mph fastball consistently. Anyone in SoCal remember the Tustin Batting Cages? .

from the machine :rolleyes: cake, i would imagine it is in tustin? NO

from the machine cake


Cake huh? With the out of round balls, inconsistent placement, and never knowing when you are going to need to duck one it wasn’t that easy. I don’t know if it was really 90mph but we would crank the machine up till it looked like it was gonna throw it’s arm off. The owner claimed they would throw 90.

first job was at TCBY.

First shift was afternoon/evening on Waffle Cone Wednesday. Owner took 5 mins to show me how to make them. I made them for the next 6 hours.

My folks loved the fact I worked there. I'd come home and they said the whole house smelled like vanilla cones.

Worked there all through high school and on an occasional vacation back from college. Owner told me he could give me my own store (as manager) if I decided not to go to college. :rolleyes:

my first job was a referee for soccer. it was cool and 10 bucks an hour isnt bad when u are 13-14 years old.

Drew

I stacked pear boxes for a pear packing plant. horrible job...

car wash. I was 14 or 15 I think. It sucked royally

kentucky fried chicken at 15, havent eatin their since :barf::flipoff2:

Besides being a paperboy, landscaper, and general errand-boy...

I worked in a chocolate factory when I was 14. Thank you Ron Reagan! Seriously, his $2.50/hr minimum wage allowed me to get that job, which was really an 18 and over job. Within 1 month I was in charge of 3 middle-aged women, and ran a big old chocolate emulsifying/coating/cooling machine. If you don't do it just right chocolate gets 'milky'. I was an expert. All gourmet candies, high-end chocolates.

10lb bars of Hershey, mixing vats of gourmet caramel, hand-dipping maracino cherries.... not bad for a kid.

MaryAnn owned the place. Her father was a Concentration Camp survivor. During a work party, I got to meet him and see the numbers on his arm. :eek: Nice folks.

Auto detailer/lot boy at Santa Cruz Datsun...long time ago. :flipoff2:

My first job was working at a Kumon Center when I was 16. It's an afterschool program that teaches Math, Reading (English) and Japanese. I started out grading math papers and then ended up running the front desk, helping the kids with reading and some math, and being a general assistant to the owners. I stayed there for 3 years and I had a good time working with the kids.:)

Ok, I know this is sad but Foot Action (shoe store) when I was 18:eek: :eek:. I couldn't have a job in high school because I was in sports year round, at school till 6 or 7 every day and homework afterwards didn't leave much time for a job. Now I can tell you damn near everything you'd ever want to know about any kind of shoe.

Doing deliveries for an automotive warehouse.

Paper route

Dominos Pizza. Worked when I was in high school from junior to graduation. Liked it a lot. Moved up high, and pretty much ran the place before I left. Cool job, but shitty pay and I only had one friday night off in two years.

At 14 worked on a Thoroughbred farm helping to break the babies before they went to the track.

Started working at a Trap and Skeet range outside Tucson Az, working summers and weekends, when I was 13. I started out loading the single throwers on the trap range, making 1.00/hr. Those damn bunkers were seriously hot durring Tucsons 110* plus weather. I also made money(.01/ per) picking up spent shells, and selling them to the loaders at the range. It was a cool job and I learned a lot about shooting competetively. The range, then Pachmayer, eventually ended sponsoring me at Junior skeet tournaments.

Paperboy at age 7. Me and my sister both really wanted to deliver newspapers but since she was only one year older than me, neither of us were old enough. We convinced the supervisor (ok maybe it was our parents wo did that ;)) that we would be able to share a route. He added up our ages and decided that since we were sharing a route we were effectively old enough. :D We were the best paperboys in the neighbourhood and got awards from the paper and gifts from the customers. :cow::cow::cow:

Mowed lawns and other things like that between age 10 and 15.

My first real job was weekends as a roofer starting at age 16. It was tough, dirty work but I actually enjoyed it.

Originally posted by H8monday
Started working at a Trap and Skeet range outside Tucson Az,


Tucson rod and gun club? The yuppies in Sabino Canyon got it closed a few years ago. Supposed to open again next year after multiple appeals.

I was 13, she was 15 and had tig ol' bitties for her age. We were under....... wait - shit, you guys are talking about JOBS -Like employment jobs - nevermind.....

16 (1984) and my first job was to clean the cutting room of a butcher shop in grocery store after a days work. It was the nastiest fawking job ever (except maybe for the HoneyDipper crew). I had a hose of hot water, bleach, misc scraping tools. Had to disassemble the slicers and band saws which were packed full of chunks of flesh. Always cut my hands on that bandsaw blade. Fawking slippery as shit once the hot water hit the fat. My boss was a drunk. I lasted 4 months which was some sort of record. Union contract for the cutters said they didn't have to clean up after themselves. To this day, I wonder why I am not a vegan.

SeanP

Pear sheads. As a packer's assentant, got to shoot the bull with everybody, and did nothing!

Helping little old ladies make bisquits at Hardees.

Originally posted by mike



Tucson rod and gun club? The yuppies in Sabino Canyon got it closed a few years ago. Supposed to open again next year after multiple appeals.


Thats the place,..too bad its closed.
Back in the day no one even lived in Sabino Canyon.
Hell, our property surrounding Pantano wash, was at the very outskirts of town.

Originally posted by H8monday



Thats the place,..too bad its closed.
Back in the day no one even lived in Sabino Canyon.
Hell, our property surrounding Pantano wash, was at the very outskirts of town.


HAHAHAHA I live near the Pantano wash. In what used to be referred to as Sherwood Forest or some such (I hate development names)... Even when I bought this place it was the edge of town for the most part.. not much past me. Now shit... They're gonna make Houghton a fricken freeway

Mowing lawns count? did that when I was 10. Then I got me a real job deliverin the Detroit Free Press when I was 11. No pansy ass throw the paper out the window of your ratted out camaro shit. Door to Door and stick it in the screen door at 6am before school in 3ft of snow in Detroit.
When I was 14.5 I lied and sad I was 15 and had mom's permission to work and was flipping burgers at McD's. Then on to Burger King when I was 16.

Fawking pussies that don't have no job till your 20 living on yuppie food stamps from mommy and daddy don't know chit! :flipoff2:

I worked on computers for the Navy Contracts A.C.E. (Advanced Computing Enviroment) Office, Age... 16

Worked for Tyco Inc. Fawking sucked...took me a week to figure out what the guys I worked with said (mulisms but very nice guys).

Then I just looked a defected plastic connectors for cars. Sometimes we had to pick out the different shade of blue (they basically are the same blue until you look very closely, stupid crap like that). Never again will I do that unless stuff needs to be taken care of for my family/me (depending on the time) and I'm out of work...

attention whore


:D

My first job was at the age of 15..workin at Discount pet foods in Lodi..i worked there till the middle of my sr year in high school then got pissed off at the owner because he was refusing to pay to fix my car that got hit by another employee there using the company delivery van..so then went to robinsons feed in Lockeford Ca..that place was fun...wars with cattle prods and smokin the tires on the fork lift...only thing that sucked...buckin bails of hay...would palletize 1 full stacks a day so we could bring it inside the warehouse..stayed there for 4 months and then went back to Discount pet untill about a month after i grad...and have been workin for my dad eversince

snowboarding instructor at boreal ski resort when i was 13, it was a badass job that opened up a lot of doors for me in life

Originally posted by GonPostal
First non-professional job (while in high school) was a machinist working with lathes, milling machines, etc.


That's what I'm doing now. I'm probably less qualified than you were in HS :D


First "on the clock" job as a teen was working at Six Flags trying to sucker you out of your money one quarter at a time (games). Left that for Meramec Caverns where I was a tour guide. First attempt to actually support myself full-time: used truck salesman :eek:


TEX

Originally posted by TexasBlake
Dominos Pizza. Worked when I was in high school from junior to graduation. Liked it a lot. Moved up high, and pretty much ran the place before I left. Cool job, but shitty pay and I only had one friday night off in two years.

a little late but oh well

Worked at the Jeep Shop since I was 16, wont be workin there after the new owner moves it.

First paycheck job was skinning deer carcasses at a processor at around 15. But I had been hauling hay and feeding cows from the age of about 8 until 18.

I grew up on a farm...so considering I never got paid for that I guess my first official job was working for my uncle who was a crop duster.....we dusted crops by day, and repossed ANYTHING we could move at night. That was amusing and I learned lots of skills *most not to usefull on a resume* So by the age of 18 I was well aware of hard work *375 head of cattle to milk and 2500acres of crops to tend....1200 of it hay we got to bale 3+ times a year* and I was also quite a fair pilot...*unofficially* and damn could I swipe a car..boat, tractor, you name it.

NoRM